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evict collapse: expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process; "The landlord evicted the tenants after they had not paid the rent for four months"; expel or eject without recourse to legal process; "The landlord wanted to evict the tenants so he banged on the pipes every morning at 3 a.m."

expropriate collapse: deprive of possessions; "The Communist government expropriated the landowners"

foreclose collapse: subject to foreclosing procedures; take away the right of mortgagors to redeem their mortgage

rob collapse: take something away by force or without the consent of the owner; "The burglars robbed him of all his money"

dislodge collapse: remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied; "The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space"; remove or force out from a position; "The dentist dislodged the piece of food that had been stuck under my gums"; "He finally could free the legs of the earthquake victim who was buried in the rubble"

divest collapse: reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment); "The company decided to divest"; "the board of trustees divested $20 million in real estate property"; "There was pressure on the university to disinvest in South Africa"; deprive of status or authority; "he was divested of his rights and his title"; "They disinvested themselves of their rights"

sequester collapse: set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on"; undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion; "The cations were sequestered"; requisition forcibly, as of enemy property; "the estate was sequestered"

deprive collapse: take away; keep from having, keeping, or obtaining; take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets"

oust collapse: remove from a position or office; "The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds"; remove and replace; "The word processor has ousted the typewriter"

lose collapse: fail to win; "We lost the battle but we won the war"; suffer the loss of a person through death or removal; "She lost her husband in the war"; "The couple that wanted to adopt the child lost her when the biological parents claimed her"; allow to go out of sight; "The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light"; miss from one's possessions; lose sight of; "I've lost my glasses again!"; fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense; "She lost her purse when she left it unattended on her seat"; fail to get or obtain; "I lost the opportunity to spend a year abroad"; fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit; "I lost thousands of dollars on that bad investment!"; "The company turned a loss after the first year"

downgrade collapse: the property possessed by a slope or surface that descends; rate lower; lower in value or esteem

exile collapse: the act of expelling a person from their native land; "men in exile dream of hope"; "his deportation to a penal colony"; "the expatriation of wealthy farmers"; "the sentence was one of transportation for life"; expelled from home or country by authority; voluntarily absent from home or country

eject collapse: leave an aircraft rapidly, using an ejection seat or capsule

turn out collapse: come, usually in answer to an invitation or summons; "How many people turned out that evening?"; produce quickly or regularly, usually with machinery; "This factory turns out saws"; turn outward; "These birds can splay out their toes"; "ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees"; outfit or equip, as with accessories; "The actors were turned out lavishly"; come and gather for a public event; "Hundreds of thousands turned out for the anti-war rally in New York"; result or end; "How will the game turn out?"; prove to be in the result or end; "It turns out that he was right"

cut off collapse: remove by or as if by cutting; "cut off the ear"; "lop off the dead branch"; cut off and stop; "The bicyclist was cut out by the van"

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